is a well-known think tank focusing on economic research and advice on the key issues of economic policy, which ensures

unbiased expertise on key economic issues and main components of the economic policy

highly professional consultations on development of national economic policy and strategies

quality of economic and statistical data used in its work and application of the most sophisticated instruments for short- and medium-term economic forecasting and modelling

interdisciplinary studies in the fields related to the economic policy

international expertise and international economic debate

has a stable and formed team of qualified researchers

is an important part of the civil society in Ukraine providing relevant, open, transparent, regular and hot-topic information and research.

MISSION, TARGETS, PRINCIPLES

Our mission is to provide an alternative position on key problems of social and economic development of Ukraine.

The key tasks associated with the implementation of our mission at the current stage are:

Providing top quality expertise in the field of economy and economic policy-making, and developing strategic and instrumental components of the economic policy

Forming public opinion through the organization of public debate and spreading knowledge

Contributing to the development of economic and social sciences as well as promoting the development of Ukrainian research community.

In its work the Institute is guided by the principles of free and democratic markets in an open society. The key precondition for the IER activity is its political independence that ensures impartiality in the IER recommendations on economic policy problems and helps avoiding manipulation with the research results. At the same time, the Institute actively cooperates with policy and lawmakers to implement the policy recommendations.

INSTITUTE STRUCTURE

The IER includes four research Centres interconnected by the mutual goal - studying the problems and prospects of Ukraine’s economic development in the context of societal, social and state modernization:

Center for Economic Studies that continuestraditionsof economic research, forecasting and modelling, as well as consulting on economic and social policymaking.

Center for Contemporary Society Studies that accumulates all projects related to the assessment of expectations and other data directly received from enterprises and citizens, as well as to research based on application of sociological data gathering methods.

Center for International Studies, which continues the research of Ukraine’s role in the world division of labour in context of international relations, namely its relations with neighbours and the main international centres of power, as well as Ukraine’s politics of European integration.